There aren't too many operational funiculars around, but Pittsburgh has two!

The United States’s oldest funicular railway glides up and down a steep Pittsburgh street.

This 16-foot-diameter wooden coin has been standing in Iowa City since 2006.

The Old Courthouse takes visitors on a captivating trip through St. Louis' timeline.

One of the world's earliest skyscrapers.

The iconic remains of the original Academic Hall that burned down in 1892.

Two Ming Dynasty lion statues guard the entrance to the journalism school.

No telescopes, no power, no gift shop: The Observatory of Chichen Itza, one of the world's oldest observatories, takes astronomy back to basics.

Tucked away inside a historic Savannah hotel is a hundred-year history presented in ladies' lids.

An early-19th-century hotel with a past that is steeped in the Civil War.

The first public building in Savannah to offer air conditioning was a luxurious cinema that still operates today.

This kitschy tavern is also home to rare early editions of "Treasure Island."

The home made famous by the 1983 holiday classic is now a perfectly preserved shrine to the movie.

This alley in downtown Chicago held the bodies of over 600 people after the fateful Iroquois Theatre fire.

The only Bahá'í house of worship in North America and one of only a handful worldwide.

Funded by John D. Rockefeller, this is one of the earliest, and most beautiful, shopping arcades in America.

This spectacular public market has got meat, fish, vegetables, baked goods, and enough kielbasa for a lifetime.

Performers, intricate sets, and a real speakeasy tell the story of the 18th Amendment.

This bar hosts an ever-evolving napkin art installation devoted to an American president.

One of Savannah's oldest and most haunted cemeteries, featuring graves desecrated by Sherman's Union Army.

This quirky curiosity shop takes its cues from the world's bazaars.

A statue honoring 44 continuous years of greeting passing ships.

Underneath downtown Lincoln resides a network of caves that was also the city's first brewery.

The first home of the doomed aviator Amelia Earhart.